Procurement Manager

Aera Technology is the Decision Intelligence company. We deliver innovation and services that enable enterprises to operate sustainably, intelligently, and efficiently. Our platform, Aera Decision Cloud, integrates with your existing systems to digitize, augment, and automate decisions in real time. Aera helps enterprises around the world transform decision making – delivering millions of recommendations that have resulted in significant revenue gains and cost savings for some of the world’s best-known brands.

Aera Technology is seeking a senior individual contributor for the Procurement Manager role to optimize and scale our procurement operations. You will be responsible for streamlining the procurement process, negotiating and benchmarking the best vendor deals, managing vendor relationships, and ensuring proactive contract management. This is a high-visibility and cross-functional role that will own the relationship with all our vendors, including our relationships with our cloud services providers (Azure and AWS). Your work will directly support the company’s operational efficiency and financial health.

Responsibilities

• Streamline Procurement Operations: Design and implement procurement policies and approval workflows that drive efficiency and compliance.
• Contract Lifecycle Management: Monitor contract usage and renewal timelines proactively, ensuring Aera always negotiates from a position of strength. Ensure the database is up-to-date and purchasing documents are properly filed.
• Contract Review: Review vendor agreements, partnering with Legal as required, to understand key terms, pricing structures, service-level agreements, renewal dates, and obligations.
• Benchmarking & Negotiation: Source and negotiate competitive contracts by benchmarking pricing, terms, and service quality across vendors.
• Cloud Services Oversight: Partner with the Cloud & Infra team to own the relationships and contracts with key cloud service providers (e.g., AWS, Azure), ensuring optimal pricing.
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner with Legal, Finance, and business and executive stakeholders to ensure alignment of procurement goals with company priorities.
• Vendor Management: Consolidate the vendor landscape by identifying opportunities to reduce vendor count while improving service levels and cost-effectiveness.
• Spend Oversight: Manage Aera’s spend management system (Ramp), ensuring categorization, tracking, and optimization of expenses.
• Reporting & Insights: Provide regular reporting on spend, savings, and procurement performance metrics.
  
  

About You

• Hands-on procurement professional who is comfortable performing both strategic and tactical aspects of the function.
• At least 8 years experience in purchasing, contract management, procurement, and/or vendor management.
• Experience negotiating the purchase of enterprise software subscriptions and licenses.
• Experience negotiating contracts with cloud vendors (e.g. Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).
• Experience in small to mid-size, global technology companies and managing their procurement needs is preferred.
• Experience with spend management platforms (e.g. Ramp, Brex, PayEm) is a plus.
• Attention to detail along with outstanding verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Self-motivated, goal-oriented, and eager to learn.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
  
  

If you share our passion for building a sustainable, intelligent, and efficient world, you’re in the right place. Established in 2017 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, we're a series D start-up, with teams in Mountain View, San Francisco (California), Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Paris (France), Munich (Germany), London (UK), Pune (India), and Sydney (Australia). So join us, and let’s build this!

Aera Technology is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Benefits Summary

At Aera Technology, we strive to support our Aeranauts and their loved ones through different stages of life with a variety of attractive benefits, and great perks. In addition to offering a competitive salary and company stock options, we have other great benefits available. You’ll find comprehensive medical, Group Medical Insurance, Term Insurance, Accidental Insurance, paid time off, Maternity leave, and much more. We offer unlimited access to online professional courses for both professional and personal development, coupled with people manager development programs. We believe in a flexible working environment, to allow our Aeranauts to perform at their best, ensuring a healthy work-life balance. When you’re working from the office, you’ll also have access to a fully-stocked kitchen with a selection of snacks and beverages.